Semester (Science, English, Maths) 9-10 Form 2017

This photo shows a religious building. Which religion does it belong to? 

• Buddhism

• Christianity

• Hinduism

• Islam

 This landform can be commonly found in all the following countries, except in ... . 

• Australia

• China

• Japan

• U.S.A.

Which of the following is an example of an exclave?

• Kaliningrad

• Lesotho

• Maine

• Kosovo

Paragraph B ________

The largest employment figures in the world are found in the travel and tourism industry.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• NOT GIVEN

How much will every bus trip cost (with the travelling card)? 

• $ 1.80

• $ 1.50

• $ 10

How much is the train trip at off-peak time? 

• $7.50

• $10

• $7.15

 $35 is the price of ... 

• A tourist ferry tour for the whole day.

• A tourist ferry tour for the part of the day.

• Any trip up river.

Using the map identify the number of the place where Santa Fe is located.

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 6

Ayesha wants to make a map of a museum  that will go on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. What scale would be most appropriate? 

• 1:1

• 1:15,000

• 1:250,000

• 1:750,000

Look at the photo and characterize the economical situation in the country it was taken.

• Good social welfare system

• High GDP

• High inflation rate

• Low crime rates

Guess the name of the tool/construction described.A(an) ____________ is basically a white louvered wooden box. The box is designed to contain some weather equipment. It is white to reflect sunlight and has slats to allow air to circulate easily and it should be placed above the ground and away from the buildings. The idea is for the weather instruments to take accurate readings of the air, rather than direct sunlight or heat from the ground or from buildings.

• Barometer

• Stevenson screen

• Born sunshade

• Anemometer

Which of the following was introduced to the New World by explorers from Europe?

• Potato

• Tomato

• Avocado

• Smallpox

Look at the picture. Choose the name of the river this dam was built on.

• Columbia

• Mekong

• Yangtze

• Amur

The top floor of this skyscraper is home to a VIP club so exclusive that no pictures of it were released until 10 years after it was built. This building casts a shadow onto East Park, making it the world’s tallest sundial. Fireworks are launched from this building during its nation’s New Years Eve celebrations, and its torch-like spire changes color based on the day of the week. At its 2004 completion, it was the tallest in the world, but it has since been surpassed by other buildings.

• Empire State Building

• World Trade Center

• Burj Khalifa

• Shin Kong Life Tower

What country is it? 

• Ethiopia

• Kenya

• Somalia

• Kongo

At the travel agency where you come to find out about the summer offers you’ve met a family couple who were asking the refund for the spoilt vocation in Montserrat, France. They said that many people suffered and some were even killed by the ash coming from the island’s volcano. The President of France undertook the immediate measures but  the holiday was spoilt. You realize immediately that these people are fraudsters. How do you know?

• Volcanoes in the Caribbean cannot produce ash

• France does not have a president

• Montserrat does not belong to France

• Montserrat does not have a volcano

Look at the graph and answer the questions.What was the number of births in Denmark in 1985?

• 28 000

• 36 000

• 54 000

• 50 000

Using the picture above identify a year when there were more emigrants than immigrants.

• 1975

• 1985

• 1996

• 2001

Calculate the total number of immigrants in Denmark in 1995 according to the graph.

• 60 000

• 62 000

• 122 000

• There’s no correct answer

Look at the pictures. Where are the most unusual tunnels situated? 

• 1- The USA, 2 - Norway, 3 - Japan , 4 - China

• 1- China, 2 - Montenegro, 3 - Japan, 4 - India

• 1- The UAE, 2 - Russia, 3 - Australia, 4 - Georgia

• 1- The USA, 2 - Austria, 3 - China, 4 - Mongolia

Paragraph C ________

Find the value of X that satisfies 10^x * 100^2x = 1000⁵ 

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Paragraph E ________

Paragraph D ________

Tourism has a social impact because it promotes recreation.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• NOT GIVEN

Tourism contributes over six per cent of the Australian gross national product.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• NOT GIVEN

Visitor spending is always greater than the spending of residents in tourist areas.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• NOT GIVEN

It is easy to show statistically how tourism affects individual economies.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• NOT GIVEN

The travel and tourism industry in Jamaica is the major ________

The problems associated with measuring international tourism are often reflected in the measurement of  ________

A room or building in which you stay during holidays or live. ________

Let x= -2017. What is the value of | | |x| -x| - |x| | -x  ? 

• ​-2017 

• 0

• 2017 

• 4034  

• 6051

If you request it at a hotel, breakfast and dinner would be included in the hotel price (as part of the package). ________

A hotel deal where the price includes accommodation, meals and drinks at any time. ________

A private flight scheduled to meet the needs of specific passengers or organizations (can be a part of the package tour). ________

In the picture below one-cm squares are excluded from the vertices of this 5 cm square. Find the area in square cm of the largest possible square that can be fitted into the remaining space? 

• 9

• 12 1/2

• 15

• 15 1/5

• 17

 A holiday at a fixed price in which the travel company arranges your travel, hotels, and sometimes meals for you. ________

An overland expedition, especially one for hunting or viewing wildlife in eastern Africa. ________

Nearest station is ________

Number ​________ bus goes to station.

Train off-peak time is ...  

• Before 5 pm and after 5.30 pm

• Before 5 pm and after 6.30 pm

• Before 5 pm and after 7.30 pm

Pythagoras puzzle. Solve this puzzle, the answer is the animal that will show up in the result. Write the name of the animal in the box. ________

Rearrange these matches by moving one match, so the new arrangement will represent a fraction equal to 1. (the horizontal match for fraction bar can’t be moved)________ /√ ________

Hexadecimal (based on 16) numbers are made by numeric digits 0 through 9 as well as the letters A through F to represent 10 through15. Among the first 1000 positive integers, there are n whose hexadecimal representation contains only numeric digits. What is the sum of the digits of n? 

• 17

• 18

• 19

• 20

• 21

Zoey read 15 travel guides, one at a time. The first travel guide about Russia took her 1 day to read, the second guide about Germany took her 2 days to read, the third travel guide about Croatia took her 3 days to read, and so on, with each travel brochure taking her 1 more day to read than the previous one. Zoey finished the first book on a Monday, and the second on a Wednesday. On what day the week did she finish her 15th travel brochure about Great Britain? 

• Sunday

• Monday

• Wednesday

• Friday

• Saturday

David drives from his home to the airport to catch a flight to China. He drives 35  miles in the first hour, but realizes that he will be 1 hour late if he continues at this speed. He increases his speed by 15 miles per hour for the rest of the way to the airport and arrives 30  minutes early. How many miles is the airport from his home? 

• 140

• 175

• 210

• 245

• 280

Imagine that on Wonderworld Island, there is an airport. The airport has got an unlimited number of identical airplanes. Each airplane has a fuel capacity to allow it to fly exactly 1/2 way around the world, along a great circle. The planes have the ability to refuel in flight extremely quickly without loss of speed or spillage of fuel. The island is the only source of fuel.What is the fewest number of aircraft necessary to get one plane all the way around the world assuming that all of the aircraft must return safely to the airport? 

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 8